 Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds you stuff of any degree of fineness ; but, nevertheless, what you get out depends on what you put in ; and as the grandest mill in the world will not extract wheat-flour from...  The North British Review - Page 2031869Full view - About this book
 | Silvanus Phillips Thompson - 1910 - 634 pages
...inadmissible appearance of authority over the results obtained by them. Mathematics may be compared to a miM of exquisite workmanship, which grinds you stuff of...fineness ; but, nevertheless, what you get out depends on xin THE GEOLOGICAL CONTROVERSY 547 what you put in ; and as the grandest mill in the world will not... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1913 - 416 pages
...which grinds you stuff of any degree of fineness; but, nevertheless, what you get out depends upon what you put in; and as the grandest mill in the world will not extract wheat-flour from peascod, * Sir W. Thomson, loc. tit. p. 27. so pages of formulae will not get a definite result out... | |
 | Geological Society of America - 1919 - 710 pages
...radioactivity, it is at least unwise or unsafe to put a too rigid dependence on them. As Huxley once said : "Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite...fineness ; but nevertheless what you get out depends upon what you put in ; and as the finest mill in the world will not extract wheat-flour from ]>enscods,... | |
 | 1927 - 426 pages
...this point very well years ago in the historic controversy with Kelvin as to the age of the Earth. " Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite...nevertheless, what you get out depends on what you put in." Correlation results are important, but one ought not to attach more significance to them than the quality... | |
 | 1907 - 590 pages
...mind, the combination provides a great deal that had no previous existence. Even Huxley could write: Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds your stuff to any degree of fineness, but nevertheless what you get out depends on what you put in;... | |
 | American Society of Civil Engineers - 1876 - 658 pages
...; or as Professor Huxley has very forcibly put it, " Mathematics may be compared to a mill of very exquisite workmanship, which grinds you stuff of any...fineness, but nevertheless, what you get out depends upon what you put iu, and as the grandest mill in the world will not extract wheat flour from peas... | |
 | Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh - 1897 - 468 pages
...of fineness ; but, nevertheless, what you get out depends upon what you put in ; and as the finest mill in the world will not extract wheat-flour from peascods, so pages of formulœ will not get a definite result out of loose data." In the following pages I shall confine... | |
 | Robert Boakes - 1984 - 298 pages
...inadmissible appearance of authority over the results obtained by them'; and went on to compare mathematics 'to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds...mill in the world will not extract wheat-flour from peas-cod so pages of formulae will not get a definite result out of loose data'.1 Many other biologists... | |
 | 1911 - 510 pages
...number of intermediate saturated complexes or ' ampholates.' each forming a chemical individual. 2. Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds you stuff in uny degree of fineness, but, nevertheless, what you get out depends on what you put in . and as... | |
 | T. W. Körner - 1988 - 610 pages
...is allowed to throw a wholly inadmissible appearance of authority over the results obtained by them. Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite...not extract wheat-flour from peascods, so pages of formulae will not get a definite result out of loose data. (Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society... | |
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